Or, what if that porn you downloaded, legitimate other than for copyright, contains kiddie stuff? Especially if it's been sitting on your disk for months, awaiting its turn to be watched?
Thus, you need to immediately go and watch the entirety of your porn stash! All of it, not just the beginning of every piece -- it's an obvious trick to hide it from cursory search by attaching a fake part at the start.
Just guess what happens if the malware du jour, instead of sending spam or encrypting your files, plants some kiddie porn then gives you an offer. Or, if you have said something not expressing love towards Hillary/Trump/Putin/Erdogan, not say anything to you and call law enforcement immediately?
integrating Vector's hardware and software know-how into its own organization
Yeah right... it's like Oracle buying MySQL or Gillette buying all other razor blade makers. All that "know-how" employees will be let go, designs put into the round file, etc. The only thing they'll keep will be patents, ie, monopoly rights. It's all about removing competition.
I don't understand people who even save passwords, let alone full profiles of themselves.
Saving passwords works separately and differently than form autofill. I find it useful for shit sites (ie, 95% of all passwords) -- and if you can get them if you pwn my browser, oh well.
with BPF now in Linux and ZFS sort-of working, the number of claimed reasons to use BSD grows thin.
He-he, as long as you don't know, what else you are missing... Yes, I suppose, ignorance is bliss.
Well, yes -- I'm just quoting the two reasons that are nearly exclusively said. I don't run FreeBSD myself other than to port my programs to. I guess this is a wonderful place to say "please enlighten me then".
BSD userland reminds me of SCO -- it's that musty. If you want the kernel that bad, there's Debian kfreebsd -- nice, devoid of systemd. Although with BPF now in Linux and ZFS sort-of working, the number of claimed reasons to use BSD grows thin.
Or better yet, replaced both by an actual shell that can do simple things in a single line rather than half a screenful of obscure code like powershell. There are many off-the-shelf shells with a proprietary-friendly license Microsoft could choose.
The very notion of "gender identity" is a delusion, aka a matter for phychiatry. The government has no business tracking those, other than as generic mental health data. If you want to change your gender, get an operation, changing labels doesn't do jack. (Ok, a 100% gender swap operation still won't let you into a North Carolina bathroom).
As for discrimination by race or gender, in current cutthroat capitalist world it's best to remove all quotas and inequality that the Department of Labor and other agencies force upon companies while spewing platitudes about removing inequality. The only fair way is complete race and gender blindness. In the absence of regulations, a sane company will win by making relative differences of compensation to their employees exactly same as their differences in merit. If a three-headed worker can do 1.5 times as much work as a two-headed one, the fair pay is 1.5 times as much. Now assume that, per the "gender pay gap" myth a woman is paid 75% the pay for the same work -- so here's a brilliant idea: employ no one but women! Pay them 5% above what the competition would so you get to pick your employees -- you get to pocket 20% pure savings!
There are two facts to consider: 1. variance between individuals trumps any racial or gender "bonuses" to skill, thus by discriminating against a group you lose a part of qualified individuals, choosing from a smaller talent pool is likely to give worse results. And applicants already largely self-select so savings by reducing recruitment costs are about none; 2. there is a difference between groups. For example, gender: it was beneficial for men to take risks to hunt down than mammoth while losing a fertile woman would badly hurt your group's long-time survival. Men and women have their distinct strengths -- while a particular woman, thanks to individual variance, may be a good lumberjack, women on the average are massively less competent at lumberjacking (especially with an axe rather than a chainsaw), while a typical man makes a worthless kindergarten teacher. Race differences also have an evolutionary base: in some places, you win by being able to run/etc faster, while in others it's more important to be able to plan to survive winter. Real race differences are really miniscule compared to those of gender -- for the former, there's a mere couple ten thousand years of divergence. Today, race is almost exclusively a proxy for culture, and it's the latter what causes the massive difference in achievements you can observe.
The conclusion: 1. any selection that's not 100% race/gender/etc-blind hurts not only the discriminee but also the side doing the selection, 2. a fair selection will produce unequal (claimed by some to be "unfair") averages.
Here's one. 4GB RAM, SATA, USB3, DP+HDMI that can do real multi-head, 2*PCIe (only M.2 connectors but compatible with adapters to regular PCIe), and so on.
Well, it's China who's at the forefront of innovation here: there's more Falun Gong people than road fatalities, and they can be kept alive in prisons until their organs are actually needed.
My current estimate is that Christianity cost us about 1500 years of technical progress, by shutting down hard the only culture that had a propensity for innovation (the Chinese had a few minor inventions but were otherwise stagnant, innovation in the Indic world was completely dead, Middle East coasted as a province of the Graeco-Roman world and briefly attempted to continue (11th century) but the mullahs quickly put a stop to that, others weren't even a blip), we still haven't fully recovered from their influence.
Now think what would happen if a massively more restrictive religion took that place. Just look at what's happening in parts of the world where they rule, and what demands they make in countries they immigrate to.
1. There have not been "hoards" of Muslim hoodlums entering Germany. Most of the refugees are actually fleeing Islamic terrorists.
No, most are economic migrants rather than refugees. And many of the latter are both fleeing terrorists and terrorists themselves. You see, their holy book demands that.
Worshipping the Bible takes a steaming load of doublethink and cherry-picking, it has several hundreds of non-trivial contradictions. We of the western culture have been conditioned for this as kids and thus take this as normal. With Islam, it isn't so -- Uthman has carefully edited the Koran to weed out any contradictions, and mostly succeeded: the most severe one is whether alcohol is permissible, all the rest are literary devices ("how long is a day of Allah") or at most mythological matters (is Iblis an angel or a djinn?). Thus, it takes far more intellectual dishonesty to ignore the demands of that scripture. And as it demands murdering non-believers, a sizeable portion of worshippers actually do so.
But why would I want to lossily encode something then decode it back if a dumb piece of wire can transfer that without any quality loss? The end result is that $0.28 buds deliver better sound than $160 ones, don't suffer from downtime due to charging, require no extra attachments to ensure they don't get lost, need no expensive connectors to any standard gear, and so on.
So a $0.28 product is already better from any side than a $160 one. And, you know, I can pay a bit more than $0.28 to have any quality I want. Oh right, no Apple logo.
So basically the problem is that Russia is pushing its own war propaganda against government's own. Fake news is likely to be on both sides.
You haven't seen the extent of Russian trolling. The so called "Olgino brigade" (well, they have multiple offices and the one at Olgino has long since moved) dominate any comment section on a story even remotely connected to Russia, Ukraine, US, Israel, Turkey, etc, on most prominent news sites. They up-mod each other, operating many many sockpuppets through proxies in the country.
While they generally speak good Polish (or in this case, Czech), they are trivial to spot: for example, they love to call any opposition "fascist" -- that's a term which was massively used in Soviet propaganda but in Poland used exclusively for Mussolini's Italy even during the commie times -- where an American would say "nazi" we have "hitlerite", so use of "fascist" stands out. In the past they had to mention "Right Sector" in every sentence, nowadays they go for UPA or Bandera. Somehow they're also extremely anti-semitic (not sure what's the gain for Russia here).
Atheists killed over a hundred millions last century.
Let's compare christianity with communism:
scripture
clergy
portraits of prophets everywhere
saints and martyrs
promise of paradise (after death vs on Earth)
proselytism
intense hatred towards non-believers
ceremonies
processions (heck, in primary school I was forced to both go to May 1st parade ("absence will cause expulsion from school") then a few years later to Corpus Christi)
So, uhm, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, but doesn't self-identify as a duck...
Well, around the turn of 0th millenium Roman writers complained about the youngins gambling, having no respect for their parents and the gods, so I guess that's a data point.
hard-drive manufacturers don't label drives as their formatted capacity
Heck, hard-drive manufactures are so evil they even paid a committee to introduce a conflicting unit of measure with the same name as something we used for decades.
Uhm, no, why would I want to read that article? The synopsis is here for a reason.
I came here for tech news, keeping up with that odd astronomy/biology/physics/etc development, etc. The kind that a well-rounded modern person should be aware of. Not for gossip about an actress in a third-rate "science"-fiction movie that for some reason got popular.
This is a case of "late worse than never" (or more exactly, "ever worse than never"). Seriously, what site we're on? I haven't come here for celebrity gossip.
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Or, what if that porn you downloaded, legitimate other than for copyright, contains kiddie stuff? Especially if it's been sitting on your disk for months, awaiting its turn to be watched?
Thus, you need to immediately go and watch the entirety of your porn stash! All of it, not just the beginning of every piece -- it's an obvious trick to hide it from cursory search by attaching a fake part at the start.
Just guess what happens if the malware du jour, instead of sending spam or encrypting your files, plants some kiddie porn then gives you an offer. Or, if you have said something not expressing love towards Hillary/Trump/Putin/Erdogan, not say anything to you and call law enforcement immediately?
It was set back 10 years by GWB.
Then another 12 by Barrack Hussein, then 14 by Drumpf -- assuming an 8-year term, otherwise the delay will be 28 years for 4!
integrating Vector's hardware and software know-how into its own organization
Yeah right... it's like Oracle buying MySQL or Gillette buying all other razor blade makers. All that "know-how" employees will be let go, designs put into the round file, etc. The only thing they'll keep will be patents, ie, monopoly rights. It's all about removing competition.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
I don't understand people who even save passwords, let alone full profiles of themselves.
Saving passwords works separately and differently than form autofill. I find it useful for shit sites (ie, 95% of all passwords) -- and if you can get them if you pwn my browser, oh well.
with BPF now in Linux and ZFS sort-of working, the number of claimed reasons to use BSD grows thin.
He-he, as long as you don't know, what else you are missing... Yes, I suppose, ignorance is bliss.
Well, yes -- I'm just quoting the two reasons that are nearly exclusively said. I don't run FreeBSD myself other than to port my programs to. I guess this is a wonderful place to say "please enlighten me then".
BSD userland reminds me of SCO -- it's that musty. If you want the kernel that bad, there's Debian kfreebsd -- nice, devoid of systemd. Although with BPF now in Linux and ZFS sort-of working, the number of claimed reasons to use BSD grows thin.
Or better yet, replaced both by an actual shell that can do simple things in a single line rather than half a screenful of obscure code like powershell. There are many off-the-shelf shells with a proprietary-friendly license Microsoft could choose.
Gender. Not gender identity.
The very notion of "gender identity" is a delusion, aka a matter for phychiatry. The government has no business tracking those, other than as generic mental health data. If you want to change your gender, get an operation, changing labels doesn't do jack. (Ok, a 100% gender swap operation still won't let you into a North Carolina bathroom).
As for discrimination by race or gender, in current cutthroat capitalist world it's best to remove all quotas and inequality that the Department of Labor and other agencies force upon companies while spewing platitudes about removing inequality. The only fair way is complete race and gender blindness. In the absence of regulations, a sane company will win by making relative differences of compensation to their employees exactly same as their differences in merit. If a three-headed worker can do 1.5 times as much work as a two-headed one, the fair pay is 1.5 times as much. Now assume that, per the "gender pay gap" myth a woman is paid 75% the pay for the same work -- so here's a brilliant idea: employ no one but women! Pay them 5% above what the competition would so you get to pick your employees -- you get to pocket 20% pure savings!
There are two facts to consider: 1. variance between individuals trumps any racial or gender "bonuses" to skill, thus by discriminating against a group you lose a part of qualified individuals, choosing from a smaller talent pool is likely to give worse results. And applicants already largely self-select so savings by reducing recruitment costs are about none; 2. there is a difference between groups. For example, gender: it was beneficial for men to take risks to hunt down than mammoth while losing a fertile woman would badly hurt your group's long-time survival. Men and women have their distinct strengths -- while a particular woman, thanks to individual variance, may be a good lumberjack, women on the average are massively less competent at lumberjacking (especially with an axe rather than a chainsaw), while a typical man makes a worthless kindergarten teacher. Race differences also have an evolutionary base: in some places, you win by being able to run/etc faster, while in others it's more important to be able to plan to survive winter. Real race differences are really miniscule compared to those of gender -- for the former, there's a mere couple ten thousand years of divergence. Today, race is almost exclusively a proxy for culture, and it's the latter what causes the massive difference in achievements you can observe.
The conclusion: 1. any selection that's not 100% race/gender/etc-blind hurts not only the discriminee but also the side doing the selection, 2. a fair selection will produce unequal (claimed by some to be "unfair") averages.
Here's one. 4GB RAM, SATA, USB3, DP+HDMI that can do real multi-head, 2*PCIe (only M.2 connectors but compatible with adapters to regular PCIe), and so on.
Well, it's China who's at the forefront of innovation here: there's more Falun Gong people than road fatalities, and they can be kept alive in prisons until their organs are actually needed.
Aren't they the ones that randomly mutate into Â(TM)?
Any site that breaks them also fails utterly for non-English text or for most symbols. No one sane would use a site that broken, right? Right?!?
My current estimate is that Christianity cost us about 1500 years of technical progress, by shutting down hard the only culture that had a propensity for innovation (the Chinese had a few minor inventions but were otherwise stagnant, innovation in the Indic world was completely dead, Middle East coasted as a province of the Graeco-Roman world and briefly attempted to continue (11th century) but the mullahs quickly put a stop to that, others weren't even a blip), we still haven't fully recovered from their influence.
Now think what would happen if a massively more restrictive religion took that place. Just look at what's happening in parts of the world where they rule, and what demands they make in countries they immigrate to.
1. There have not been "hoards" of Muslim hoodlums entering Germany. Most of the refugees are actually fleeing Islamic terrorists.
No, most are economic migrants rather than refugees. And many of the latter are both fleeing terrorists and terrorists themselves. You see, their holy book demands that.
Worshipping the Bible takes a steaming load of doublethink and cherry-picking, it has several hundreds of non-trivial contradictions. We of the western culture have been conditioned for this as kids and thus take this as normal. With Islam, it isn't so -- Uthman has carefully edited the Koran to weed out any contradictions, and mostly succeeded: the most severe one is whether alcohol is permissible, all the rest are literary devices ("how long is a day of Allah") or at most mythological matters (is Iblis an angel or a djinn?). Thus, it takes far more intellectual dishonesty to ignore the demands of that scripture. And as it demands murdering non-believers, a sizeable portion of worshippers actually do so.
At least we only have to deal with those highly capable ones instead of any peon who have a gun and can drive.
The highly capable attacker might be sitting in his office in Petersburg, Shengzhou or D.C.
But why would I want to lossily encode something then decode it back if a dumb piece of wire can transfer that without any quality loss? The end result is that $0.28 buds deliver better sound than $160 ones, don't suffer from downtime due to charging, require no extra attachments to ensure they don't get lost, need no expensive connectors to any standard gear, and so on.
So a $0.28 product is already better from any side than a $160 one. And, you know, I can pay a bit more than $0.28 to have any quality I want. Oh right, no Apple logo.
So basically the problem is that Russia is pushing its own war propaganda against government's own. Fake news is likely to be on both sides.
You haven't seen the extent of Russian trolling. The so called "Olgino brigade" (well, they have multiple offices and the one at Olgino has long since moved) dominate any comment section on a story even remotely connected to Russia, Ukraine, US, Israel, Turkey, etc, on most prominent news sites. They up-mod each other, operating many many sockpuppets through proxies in the country. While they generally speak good Polish (or in this case, Czech), they are trivial to spot: for example, they love to call any opposition "fascist" -- that's a term which was massively used in Soviet propaganda but in Poland used exclusively for Mussolini's Italy even during the commie times -- where an American would say "nazi" we have "hitlerite", so use of "fascist" stands out. In the past they had to mention "Right Sector" in every sentence, nowadays they go for UPA or Bandera. Somehow they're also extremely anti-semitic (not sure what's the gain for Russia here).
Considering the quality of bluetooth headphones I've seen, these $160 AirPods deliver worse sound than 1.20PLN ($0.28) wired buds I saw in a kiosk.
Atheists killed over a hundred millions last century.
Let's compare christianity with communism:
So, uhm, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, but doesn't self-identify as a duck...
So now gambling is a special millennial trait?
Well, around the turn of 0th millenium Roman writers complained about the youngins gambling, having no respect for their parents and the gods, so I guess that's a data point.
hard-drive manufacturers don't label drives as their formatted capacity
Heck, hard-drive manufactures are so evil they even paid a committee to introduce a conflicting unit of measure with the same name as something we used for decades.
Uhm, no, why would I want to read that article? The synopsis is here for a reason.
I came here for tech news, keeping up with that odd astronomy/biology/physics/etc development, etc. The kind that a well-rounded modern person should be aware of. Not for gossip about an actress in a third-rate "science"-fiction movie that for some reason got popular.
sociopaths are at the top and nuns are at the bottom
What about sociopathic nuns?
This is a case of "late worse than never" (or more exactly, "ever worse than never"). Seriously, what site we're on? I haven't come here for celebrity gossip.